Show I H Today oday BLAMING lIlI DI iG JJ TO 21 21 1 BILLIONS DILLIO iS iSTO TO By lJ ARTHUR 1 un BRISBANE DIUS iI Copyright 1927 1127 by The Star Co Britain tells Sir Miles l Lampion lampson at al to ask punishment for those killed d and cash ca h reparations for damages But no Is Sent t nt Japan repeats that sill she will not nol send any an army to China President CoolIdge also confines con find himself to expostulation Even go so I China Is now boycotting boycotting ting American an goods It doesn't tako take the seventh son lion of or a seventh son to guess gU 5 that th t Chinas China's dislike will wilt bo be toward the United States If it possible Four our hundred million Chinese have got to cool down theres there's no use planning to shoot them down You could not It even It If your conscience directed by your pock- pock pocketbook pocketbook pocketbook would i let t you ou try A famous boar named Colonel Broadcaster and fourteen other pedigreed American swine were sent to Greece yesterday Tho mountains that look on Marathon will soon lIoon see nee finer pigs rooting along the beach than they ever eversa saw sa w before beCore Poetry is above pigs but pigs that America sends to Greece will do Greece more snore good than the poetry that Byron Dyron wrote Greece has won y for tor herself the freedom that Byron D on asked her She couldn't win without foreign help such tuch a pedigreed pig as Broadcaster The TilO American people now h t 1 ve eleven thousand million dollars in invested In- In vested ves ed In foreign countries This doesn't include ten thousand mil mil- millions millions millIons lions lent by the United States to foreign nations in the war war thus thus purchasing the hatred of or those na na- na- na Europe owes us in all twenty twenty- one billions billions billions-a a good deal of ot money mone and some of or it will never come comeback back If It you ou are tempted by usurious Interest Inter st rates rales on European bonds be careful at least to watch your investments closely Before Defore members of or solemn Roosevelt club lb In Boston Senator Dorah and Dr Butler Dutler of or Colum Colum- Columbia Columbia bia bla university debated Should the tile prohibition amendment be taken out of or the constitution They might as well debate Should the moon be made mado ol or green cheese The eighteenth amendment will not be taken out of ot the constitution But Dut the act which In Interprets In- In Interprets the eighteenth amendment might be replaced by another act Interpreting it otherwise What If anything should be done to the act to which many at at- attribute attribute tribute our bootleggers jack hi-jack- ers era high school whisky whisk drinkers and crime wave vave That is a a. reasonable rea question Secretary Hoover says Bays the rail rail- railroads railroads railroads roads aro are now In fine condition supplying completely adequate service He lIe thinks this vindi vindicates cates private ownership It shows at least that that- private ownership Is working well ell as It well may when whets governments government guar guar- guarantees guarantees guarantees railroad owners good earn earn- earnings earnIngs ings lags Including Interest on their mistakes mS and much water Private ownership of or railroads Is going to stay as long as prosper prosper- prosperity ity stays slays sla s 's everybody knows that If l things became very ery bad had of course railroads would say sa to tho th government please take us us It should not be bt b overlooked and Secretary Hoover knows It that the United States postoffice also gives gl s completely adequate ser ser- service service service vice and is not under private ownership Mr Ir Hoover couldn't Imagine any an private enterprise carrying a letter from the south south- southern southern ern era tip of or Florida to the northern end of Alaska for tor two cents This country entered the world orld war officially ten years ago and when we did go In In we went In with witha ltha a a. splash millions of or men sent across the ocean to countries that wouldn't have sent us one man under similar conditions Billions of ot dollars sent to the countries that tl wouldn't have sent us 25 cents under similar conditions We e dont don't regret It nothing Is Ismore Ismore Ismore more valuable than experience even It Ir you dont don't make the world quite safe sare for tor democracy But lets let's hope we will be cautious about going Into future wars and especially ial about paying nations as much muchas as aa the fl billion dollars apiece to dislike us One Ono reader Is amazed that doc doe doctrines doctrines trines of or the Russian Red ned Com Cent Communists Communists should be taken up so 80 greedily In China C ino There Is no call ca for amazement Here whore hore many of or us own owis something we e dont don't think much of or communism But In China where haven't got much of or anything a suggestion sug to divide might be bo car car- ried ned Japan has learned to do every even everything everything thing In a big way has what even United States would call a a. big ble failure f The great Tokio firm Inn of or Suzuki suspends sUS payments with liabilities of or a quarter of ot a billion dollars half hair a million yen cn This caused Japanese exchange to drop but it will come back A nation that cant can't be shaken by such earth earth- earthquakes earthquakes earthquakes quakes as Japan has bas had will not be shaken by one or a dozen big failures fall u res Another big diamond field found In South Africa will worry the dla dia diamond mond mend monopoly But nature reg reg- regulates regulates the supply of or diamonds gold and sliver silver In a way tay that might make even a 0 hardened atheist believe be- be believe lieve In Intelligent benevolent reg reg- regulation regulation of or this 1115 earth The discovery pf of or a II lump of or gold Jold golda Jolda a big as tho at Washing Washington ton would upset the worlds world's floats finan ces Discovery DI of or a diamond as big as the dome on the capitol would send the great greet European diamond trust to the poor house But Dut that lump of or gold and that diamond will not be found or at least not until tho the world gets rich enough to buy bu both at fair tall prices nn |